FinOps Engineer (Full Time)

Duckbill Group; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative consulting firm seeks a skilled professional to optimize AWS costs for clients. In this dynamic role, you'll engage with both technical teams and executives, driving cost management strategies across diverse AWS environments. You'll gain unparalleled experience, learning from a wide array of clients while working remotely in a supportive and inclusive culture. This is a unique opportunity to grow your expertise in AWS and consulting, making a significant impact in a rapidly evolving field. Join a small but ambitious team dedicated to excellence and client success.

Benefits

401(k) with company contribution

Healthcare, vision, and dental coverage

4 weeks PTO plus unlimited sick leave

Paid time off during the last week of the year

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of AWS concepts and tools.
• Experience in AWS cost management and client-facing roles.

Responsibilities

• Help clients optimize their AWS spend and understand cost management.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and executive audiences.
• Stay updated on AWS developments and improve expertise.

Skills

AWS

Cost Management

Data Analysis

Communication

Consulting

Python

Excel

Job description

Do you love working on AWS bills? Helping build cost management processes? If so, you might be a great fit for our team.

This is a full-time role. If you're interested in part-time, freelance work, submit an application to our freelance FinOps Engineer posting.

You will be responsible for helping our clients understand and optimize their AWS spend. You will be working on identifying cost reduction opportunities at an architectural level, building cost forecasting models, creating better governance and cost management controls, assessing clients own cost management programs, and continuing to identify better ways we can serve our clients.

You will be working closely with executives and engineers from our clients and leading projects on some of the largest, most complicated AWS environments you can imagine. Your skills in communicating to both executive audiences and engineering audiences will be crucial in this role. It’s not uncommon for us to find ourselves on a call with a CFO of a billion dollar company followed by a call with one of their SREs to discuss some esoteric Kafka architecture.

We’re looking for folks from both an Engineering/SRE/DevOps background and a finance/business background.

Our clients expect us to be deeply engaged experts in AWS, particularly in AWS billing, so you’ll need to do your best to constantly improve your skills in the wild west that is Amazon Web Services. Nobody has this all in their head; it’s a process that never ends.

What’s in it for you? Working at The Duckbill Group is a great way to get an incredible amount of experience across a wide range of environments in a very short amount of time. While most people work with one AWS environment every two years or so, we see dozens each year--including some of the largest and most interesting AWS customers out there. We promise you: no matter how much experience you have with AWS now, you’ll learn more with us than you thought possible.

Responsibilities

• We’re a small, scrappy company. You’ll be working with a high degree of autonomy, often running engagements by yourself.
• Communicate across multiple teams at our clients, from Engineering to Finance, and up to C-suite staff. You’ll be working with clients via email, Slack, and video calls.
• Work directly with clients to help them understand their AWS spend and optimize it based on their unique architecture and desired business outcomes
• Keep up to date on the latest AWS news and changes and continually work at being an expert in all-things-AWS
• You love taking a data-driven approach to cost management. Rather than make guesses about costs, you dive deep for answers. (In a love triangle with Excel and Python? Yeah, us too.)

Requirements

• Strong with AWS concepts, tools, and services.
• Prior experience communicating effectively with executive audiences
• Prior experience in AWS cost management
• Prior experience working in a consultative, client-facing role. Seriously, you’ve got to love consulting and working with clients.
• This role is remote, but you must be US-based and legally authorized to work in the United States due to various client requirements we have.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation for this role is all cash. Salary range is $150,000 to $250,000, depending on experience.

We provide a 401(k) with a company contribution of 6% of your salary that vests immediately. In other words, we’re putting an additional $9,000 to $15,000 per year into your 401(k) for you, whether you contribute or not.

We provide healthcare, vision, and dental with premiums fully covered by the company. Dependents are covered 50%.

We offer 4 weeks of PTO that accrue monthly, plus unlimited sick leave. We also close up shop for the last week of the year, giving everyone another week of paid time off.

About Us

The Duckbill Group provides consulting services to mid-market and enterprise companies aimed at optimizing and managing their AWS spend. You can read aboutour services and some of our clients on our website. Additionally, we operate several media publications in the AWS space, including our flagship publication,Last Week in AWS.

While we might look like a standard boutique consulting firm, we’ve got big dreams and ambitions around how we can serve more clients in more ways. We’re looking to grow and you would be a big part of that.

We are a mostly-remote company (our founders are in San Francisco, everyone else is around the country). We’re a company of five employees currently and six years old. We're bootstrapped and have been running with a healthy profit since day one.

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We hire adults. We value transparency, autonomy, experimentation, and kind, direct feedback. We welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We’re an equal opportunity employer and our hiring process is structured to put you at ease and help you demonstrate your best work. If we are doing a poor job of this at any time, please let us know. We hire for strengths, not absence of weakness. Come do great things with us.